c. 1920s-30s Carved and Painted Folk Art Bird on Scalloped Base fine lacquerware tea caddy These cards

These cards

Handle is 7/16" in diameter

but believe the quilt like collaging of silver and gold paper and blue and white fabric marks pieces to be cut and seams to be sewn

I believe it dates to the first quarter of the 20th c

c. 1920s-30s Carved and Painted Folk Art Bird on Scalloped Base fine lacquerware tea caddy These cardsI found this little carved and painted bird in upstate New York not far from Albany, and it seems to me likely the creation of a folk carver in a cabin somewhere in the Adirondacks in the 1920s or 30s or so. I take the bird with gray body and black band around its neck as duck, either taking off or just landed, with wings outspread and neck extended. Lovingly carved, with nicely tapering wings and tail, and attached by nailed legs to the cream painted